Semantic Perception

How the Illusion of a Common Language Arises and Persists

Autor: Jody Azzouni

Język:

Oprawa: Miękka

Wydawca: Oxford University Press Inc

Dostępność: Dostępna u dostawcy

Wysyłamy za 10-18 dni

187.60 zł

Jody Azzouni argues that we involuntarily experience certain physical items, certain products of hum...

Informacje o książce

Autor

Jody Azzouni

Język

Angielski

Oprawa

Książka - Miękka

Data wydania

2015

strony

386

EAN

9780190275549

ISBN

0190275545

Enbook ID

09320917

Wydawca

Oxford University Press Inc

Waga

564

Wymiary

235 x 159 x 27

Pełny opis

Jody Azzouni argues that we involuntarily experience certain physical items, certain products of human actions, and certain human actions themselves as having meaning-properties. We understand these items as possessing meaning or as having (or being capable of having) truth values. For example, a sign on a door reading "Drinks Inside" strikes native English speakers as referring to liquids in the room behind the door. The sign has a truth value-if no drinks are found in the room, the sign is misleading. Someone pointing in a direction has the same effect: we experience her gesture as significant. Azzouni does not suggest that we don't recognize the expectations or intentions of speakers (including ourselves); we do recognize that the person pointing in a certain direction intends for us to understand her gesture's significance. Nevertheless, Azzouni asserts that we experience that gesture as having significance independent of her intentions. The gesture is meaningful on its own. The same is true of language, both spoken and written. We experience the meanings of language artifacts as independent of their makers' intentions in the same way that we experience an object's shape as a property independent of the object's color. There is a distinctive phenomenology to the experience of understanding language, and Semantic Perception shows how this phenomenology can be brought to bear as evidence for and against competing theories of language.

Możesz być zainteresowany

Klienci, którzy kupili tę książkę, kupili również

Najczęściej wyszukiwane

Categories

Authors

Publishers

Produkty

Produkty

Najczęściej wyszukiwane

Categories

Authors

Publishers

Produkty

Produkty

Semantic Perception

How the Illusion of a Common Language Arises and Persists

Informacje o książce

Pełny opis

Możesz być zainteresowany

Klienci, którzy kupili tę książkę, kupili również